July 2008 Beginning Readers Guide
Looking for opportunities to help your students learn with Highlights? This monthly guide to the magazine will help you find stories and activities that suit your students' reading level.
ACTIVITIES
Fun This Month (page 2)
Solve an ice-cream puzzle and try some tongue twisters.
Find the Pictures (page 2)
Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.
Sea-Life Scrambler (page 8)
Solve this puzzle.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the broccoli, pennant, and other objects.
Cabin Conundrum (page 15)
Use the clues to figure out where each sign belongs.
Take Your Fishbowl to the Beach (page 22)
Try looking at some sea creatures up close.
Crafts (page 26)
Make and play a buried-treasure game, create a baseball-bat crayon box, and design a firecracker centerpiece.
Thinking (page 29)
Ponder what's happening in this campground scene.
Check . . . and Double Check (page 34)
Find at least 20 differences in these two pictures.
BrainPlay (page 39)
Which things around you look like letters of the alphabet?
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Solve this "Camp Hike-a-Lot" puzzle.
FICTION
The Summer Sun and the Yup'ik Boy (page 12)
Wassie, an Alaskan boy, finds it difficult to fall asleep when the sun is still shining late into the night.
Blueberry Pie (page 40)
Grandma and granddaughter discover that they need just one more ingredient for the pie.
HUMOR
Jokes (page 15)
Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.
The Timbertoes® (page 19)
Tommy decides he wouldn't want to be small like a grasshopper, butterfly, or caterpillar.
Riddles (page 38)
Kids share their favorite riddles.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your Own Stories (page 21)
Kids share stories they wrote.
Your Own Pages (page 32)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about taking good photos and dreaming about being a professional basketball player.
REBUS
Lemonade for Sale (page 9)
These kids make just enough money to buy ice cream.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Science Corner (page 20)
Find out what makes the beautiful colors of fireworks and discover why woodpeckers like dead trees.
Dino Days (page 20)
"Were there any meat eaters in Australia?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
You're on a Roll (page 28)
Try this experiment.
VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 8)
Goofus throws his gum on the ground; Gallant puts his litter in a trash can.
VERSE
"maggie and milly and molly and may" (page 5)
Summer Night (page 38)